Women's Harvest Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD DEFGFAD ADDDDHIIJAKLH| I am waving a ripe sunflower | A |
| I am scattering sunflower pollen to the four world quarters | B |
| I am joyful because of my melons | C |
| I am joyful because of my beans | D |
| I am joyful because of my squashes | D |
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| The sunflower waves | D |
| So did the corn wave | E |
| When the wind blew against it | F |
| So did my white corn bend | G |
| When the red lightning descended upon it | F |
| It trembled as the sunflower | A |
| When the rain beat down its leaves | D |
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| Great is a ripe sunflower | A |
| And great was the sun above my corn fields | D |
| His fingers lifted up the corn ears | D |
| His hands fashioned my melons | D |
| And set my beans full in the pods | D |
| Therefore my heart is happy | H |
| And I will lay many blue prayer sticks at the shrine of Ta wa | I |
| I will give corn to Ta wa | I |
| Yellow corn blue corn black corn | J |
| I wave the sunflower | A |
| The sunflower heavy with pollen | K |
| I wave it I turn it I sing | L |
| Because I am happy | H |
Amy Lowell
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